An Analysis of Deixis Used in The Croods Movie Script

Abstract

Language is an important tool in human life to communicate with each other. Language can deliver ideas, emotions, desires so people can get a lot of information. The listeners can know the speakers meaning if they know the speaker's context. The branch of linguistics that studied the relations between language and context on understanding language is pragmatics. Here, the researcher conducts a research about deixis.  Deixis is a pragmatics piece, it learns about the position of person, place, and time in utterances.  Deixis is used in literary work such as poetry magazines, novels, song lyrics also movies. The researcher in this research analyzed the deixis in the movie namely The Croods. The Croods movie presents the story of the adventures of The Croods family in a new world to find a place called home.

                The researcher formulated the research problems in this research as follow: (1) What are the types of deixis used in The Croods movie script? (2) How the deixis used in The Croods movie script? This research belongs to library research with qualitative approach.  Descriptive method is the method used by researchers in this study. The object in this research is The Croods movie script.  The data in this research were taken from the main characters' utterances from the movie script of The Croods. The data in this research was analized by using Yule’s theory.

            The result of this research showed that The Croods movie script used three types of deixis, they are person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis. In addition, person deixis  is divided into three types such us first person, second person, also third person. Person deixis is used to refer someone or thing. Spatial deixis is used to refer to a location. Temporal deixis is used to refer to the time of speech event. Each deixis in utterances has its own function, reference, and context.